New Cityscape Spotlights Homelessness

The research symposium in the newest issue of Cityscape, published by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research, focuses on homelessness — a complex social issue that adversely affects most Americans, although circumstances vary. The collected articles, from recipients of HUD’s Doctoral Research Grant Program, highlight unusual angles on the nation’s efforts to address this problem. The authors look at how homeless services providers are implementing the Homeless Management Information Systems (Courtney Cronley), the overrepresentation of African Americans in the homeless population (George R. Carter III), and the achievements and failures of servicing those unlikely to be served by the homeless service delivery models (Tatjana Meschede). Starting with this issue of Cityscape, the symposium includes brief reactions to the main articles from foreign scholars; Julie Christian and Suzanne Fitzpatrick provide the response in this issue. A list of outstanding HUD-sponsored research from HUD’s Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant programs that lists grant recipients and their dissertation titles completes the symposium.

This Cityscape also features refereed research by Sarah W. Carroll and Wenli Li, "The Homeownership Experience of Households in Bankruptcy." The issue concludes with special features that highlight the Neighborhood Stabilization Program by Paul A. Joice, the relationship between resident satisfaction with a neighborhood and intent to move by Richard N. Engstrom and Nathan Dunkel, using additional data to explore the understanding of decisions about home maintenance and investment by Jonathan D. Fisher and Elliot D. Williams, and using five home price indices to track housing values at the metropolitan area level by Laurie Schintler and Emilia Istrate.